Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for low birthweight arising from preterm and intra …-uterine-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …

rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …

Ireland over the 2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order stochastic dominance between the two … body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the …

stress fell in Ireland over the 1994 to 2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that …

decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score …

- tors. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. … composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other fac …

This short paper revisits two questions that were central to Joel Mokyr’s Why Ireland Starved (2nd edition, 1985 …). These are, first, what determined the variation in population change across Ireland during the Great Famine decade of 1841 …-1851 and, second, whether and in what sense can pre-famine Ireland be characterized as ‘malthusian’. …